Energy and Climate Change

We have the potential to make nuclear safer and cheaper than it’s been in the past, Lassiter says. Now we have to make the choice to pursue it.

"We’re not going to solve climate change with our process, but every bit helps."

After nearly five years of research and laboratory tests, they’re constructing 100 outdoor test sites and plan to commercialize the technology in early 2018.

The Technion team developed new thermodynamic tools that work to capture energy currently lost, and convert it to electricity, thereby increasing a solar cell’s efficiency to as much as 50 percent.

The researchers are the first to develop and field test an instrumented drone that can measure, in detail, the airflow near and downwind of a wind farm.

"If they were to replace batteries with these supercapacitors, you could charge your mobile phone in a few seconds and you wouldn’t need to charge it again for more than a week," said postdoctoral associate Nitin Choudhary.

Recent customer analytics deployments and what they mean for the market as a whole

"New market entrants will be the death of many incumbent participants."

"This is the big one: combine batteries with natural gas combined cycle plants to, essentially, balance the grid as renewable penetration grows higher."

With adequate demand-side planning and active load management, greater EV adoption could prove to be a significant supporting mechanism for overall grid stability.